Critical Thinking Assessment
Publications
Leist, C., Woolwine, M., & Bays, C. (2012) Assessing undergraduate students' critical reading skills using a reading prompt and critical thinking scoring rubric. Journal of College Reading and Learning, 43 (1), 1-24.
Lewis, J.E. & Bays, C.L. (2011). Undergraduate engineering students and critical thinking: A preliminary analysis. Conference proceeding for the American Society for Engineering Education’s Annual Conference and Exposition.
Ralston, P. & Bays, C. (In press) Enhancing critical thinking across the undergraduate experience: An exemplar from Engineering. American Journal of Engineering Education.
Ralston, P. & Bays, C. (2010). Refining a critical thinking rubric for engineering. Conference proceeding for the American Society for Engineering Education’s Annual Conference and Exposition.
Ralston, P., Larson, A., & Bays, C. (2011) An Assessment of undergraduate engineering students’ critical thinking skills guided by the Paul-Elder critical thinking framework. INQUIRY: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines, 26 (3), 25-32.
Rowan, N., Kommor, P.K., Herd, A., Salmon, P., Benson, P. (2015). Critical Thinking And Interdisciplinary Development: Fostering Critical Thinking in an Interdisciplinary Wellness Coaching Academic Program. European Scientific Journal, 11 (8), 46-59.
Van Zyl, R., Bays, C. & Gilchrist, C. (2013) Assessing teaching critical thinking with validated critical thinking inventories: The learning critical thinking inventory (LCTI) and the teaching critical thinking inventory (TCTI). INQUIRY: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines, 28 (3), 40-50.
Presentations
Bays, C. Assessment Journey at the 2011 Texas A&M Annual Assessment Conference.
Bays, C. Beyond Counting: Evaluation and Assessment panel at the 2009 Kentucky Engagement Conference.
Bays, C. & Shumake, C. Assessing the QEP: The First 2 Years round table discussion at the 2009 SACS Annual Meeting.
Gilchrist, C. & Bays, C. (2102). Demystifying faculty involvement in program-level student learning outcomes assessment. Poster presentation at the 2012 Assessment Institute.
Gupta, N. Quality tools for assessing student learning at the 2009 SACS-COC Annual Meeting. [PDF]
Partin, K., Clark, B., Reid, S., & Bays, C. Student learning outcomes: Devising an assessment for student employees at the 2012 American College Personnel Association convention.
Payette, P. (2013). University of Louisville: A case study. Invited concurrent workshop at the Summer Institute of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Daytona Beach, FL.